Fixed #29983 -- Replaced os.path() with pathlib.Path in project template and docs.

Thanks Curtis Maloney for the original patch.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/howto/overriding-templates.txt b/docs/howto/overriding-templates.txt
index e7c65dd354..eeba350478 100644
--- a/docs/howto/overriding-templates.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/overriding-templates.txt
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ Let's say you're trying to override the templates for a third-party application
 called ``blog``, which provides the templates ``blog/post.html`` and
 ``blog/list.html``. The relevant settings for your project would look like::
 
-    import os
+    from pathlib import Path
 
-    BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+    BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve(strict=True).parents[1]
 
     INSTALLED_APPS = [
         ...,
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ called ``blog``, which provides the templates ``blog/post.html`` and
     TEMPLATES = [
         {
             'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
-            'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')],
+            'DIRS': [BASE_DIR / 'templates'],
             'APP_DIRS': True,
             ...
         },
diff --git a/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt b/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
index 7b8366e66e..db2b520543 100644
--- a/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/static-files/index.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ you can define a list of directories (:setting:`STATICFILES_DIRS`) in your
 settings file where Django will also look for static files. For example::
 
     STATICFILES_DIRS = [
-        os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
+        BASE_DIR / "static",
         '/var/www/static/',
     ]